# Canadian Butt Smuggler - Gold Butt Nuggets **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 21, 2016, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-butt-smuggler-gold-butt-nuggets/766529 "2016-09-21T20:09:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-butt-smuggler-gold-butt-nuggets/766529/21 "2016-09-22T14:03:32Z")
The articles describe the gold in the form of pucks, about 6-7 ounces. Does anyone have a link to a photo of one of these? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-butt-smuggler-gold-butt-nuggets/766529/22 "2016-09-22T14:20:45Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > The articles describe the gold in the form of pucks, about 6-7 ounces. Does anyone have a link to a photo of one of these? Assuming troy ounces, a 6.5 oz lump is only [10.49 cubic centimeters](http://www.traditionaloven.com/metal/gold-converter.html). Pretty small puck. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-butt-smuggler-gold-butt-nuggets/766529/23 "2016-09-22T14:22:39Z")
Eventually, they discovered that he wasn’t just smuggling gold nuggets. He was smuggling butts. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-butt-smuggler-gold-butt-nuggets/766529/24 "2016-09-22T14:28:10Z")
Was his name Tywin Lannister? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-butt-smuggler-gold-butt-nuggets/766529/25 "2016-09-22T15:59:31Z")
> [@](#): > > … Lawrence faced “a number of smuggling-for-cash charges, including theft, laundering the proceeds of crime, … I sure as hell HOPE he laundered it. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-butt-smuggler-gold-butt-nuggets/766529/26 "2016-09-22T16:12:15Z")
In the late 30s my father worked across the street from the Philadelphia mint and got to know a couple of the employees. One of them told dad the story of a guy who would throw silver coins (dimes and quarters) out of a window onto a grassy lot below and then come back at night with a flashlight and find them. They eventually caught him by staking out the grassy lot. Not in the same class as this butt-smuggler though. Why is the mint dealing with gold. Canada does not have any gold coins. One exception is near the mint entrance where there is a million dollar gold coin well chained down. It was pretty big, wagon wheel size and enormously heavy (about 40 lb, IIRC). ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-butt-smuggler-gold-butt-nuggets/766529/27 "2016-09-22T16:17:49Z")
Is there an underground route to smuggle Canadian butts into the US? ---
**Author:** ![storyguide3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@storyguide3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyguide3)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-butt-smuggler-gold-butt-nuggets/766529/28 "2016-09-22T16:51:02Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > Why is the mint dealing with gold. Canada does not have any gold coins. One exception is near the mint entrance where there is a million dollar gold coin well chained down. It was pretty big, wagon wheel size and enormously heavy (about 40 lb, IIRC). Yes we have a [gold coin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Gold_Maple_Leaf). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ecks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ecks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ecks)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-butt-smuggler-gold-butt-nuggets/766529/29 "2016-09-22T18:34:30Z")
This reminds me of a story I was told by about an employee of a silver plating company- they had metal detectors to prevent theft. The guy simply determined the lower detection limit of the machine, and wore no metal in his clothing. Smuggled out a few BB sized beads of silver every time he left the building. Over time, he accumulated quite a pile. It was a much simpler (and less lucrative) scheme, but easier on all involved. He got caught when his dealer was arrested and turned him in for a reduced sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-butt-smuggler-gold-butt-nuggets/766529/30 "2016-09-22T19:56:01Z")
I’ll bet that when they came to arrest him he shit a brick! ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-butt-smuggler-gold-butt-nuggets/766529/31 "2016-09-22T20:15:40Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > Why is the mint dealing with gold. Canada does not have any gold coins. The Royal Canadian Mint makes a great deal of money by striking souvenir coins. They have struck a coin for basically everything. You want a Superman commemorative coin? That’s a thing. Blue Jays? Check out this month’s catalogue. Coins about Star Trek? Get out your credit card, they’ll sell you a coin with a picture of Captain Kirk holding a tribble. (I am not making that up.) Olympics?" Disney princesses? Chinese New Year? Basketball? A polar bear? Why not? They have all of those and more. And yes, many are minted in gold. In fact, their gold coins are known for their purity. Wanna give someone a cool gift? They actually sell a one-kilogram (2.2 pound) coin. It’s four inches across. Yours for just $69,000. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-butt-smuggler-gold-butt-nuggets/766529/32 "2016-09-22T20:59:54Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > They actually sell a one-kilogram (2.2 pound) coin. It’s four inches across. Yours for just $69,000. Probably not many of those butt smuggled out . ---
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-butt-smuggler-gold-butt-nuggets/766529/33 "2016-09-23T01:04:05Z")
> [@](#): > > Investigators also found a container of vaseline in his locker and the trial was presented with the prospect that a puck could be concealed in an anal cavity and not be detected by the wand. In preparation for these proceedings, in fact, a security employee actually tested the idea, Barnes said. CNN wanted to know if that guard got a raise. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-butt-smuggler-gold-butt-nuggets/766529/34 "2016-09-23T14:30:57Z")
> [@Kimera757](#): > > CNN wanted to know if that guard got a raise. More likely they just raised an eyebrow when they walked in on him and he blurted out, “I was just testing to see if it could work!” ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-butt-smuggler-gold-butt-nuggets/766529/35 "2016-09-23T19:32:42Z")
Oh, whats next? The Franklin Mint Commemorative Suppository…? Try to explain That being on a stand on your desk at the office. “… and it’ll fit Fifty gold sovereigns.” “You’re joking…!” “I never joke about my work, 007…” ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-butt-smuggler-gold-butt-nuggets/766529/36 "2016-09-23T23:09:38Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > The articles describe the gold in the form of pucks, about 6-7 ounces. Does anyone have a link to a photo of one of these? Of course they were pucks. “This is Canada, Starker!” ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-butt-smuggler-gold-butt-nuggets/766529/37 "2016-09-23T23:31:41Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > More likely they just raised an eyebrow when they walked in on him and he blurted out, “I was just testing to see if it could work!” Hey, there’s a defense for the original perpetrator: "I was working late, and, uh, I had just bought this new pair of pants–very nice pants–and I was afraid some of the solvents and lubricants we use for the mint machinery could ruin these very nice new pants I had just bought if I happened to spill any of that stuff on my new pants. So, as a precautionary measure, I took my new pants off. And then it just so happened that I accidentally slipped and fell. “Million to one shot, doc! Million to one!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-butt-smuggler-gold-butt-nuggets/766529.md?page=1)